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Epicardial Adipose Tissue Attenuation and Fat Attenuation Index: Phantom Study and In Vivo Measurements With Photon-Counting Detector CT

Victor Mergen, Emanuel Ried, Thomas Allmendinger, Thomas Sartoretti, Kai Higashigaito, Robert Manka, André Euler, Hatem Alkadhi, Matthias Eberhard

American Journal of Roentgenology · 2021 · 55 citations · 15 references

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The findings may help standardize evaluation of pericoronary inflammation by PCD CT as a measure of patients' cardiac risk.

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